{"id":3885,"date":"2022-11-11T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2022-11-11T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:09:08","slug":"but-you-never-actually-said-what-you-were-going-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"But You Never Actually Said What You Were Going to Do About It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JPA368.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JPA368.jpg\" alt=\"But You Never Actually Said What You Were Going to Do About It\" class=\"wp-image-3886\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JPA368.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/JPA368-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s an old maxim (or perhaps I just made it up): Never let updated information get in the way of a good idea for a cartoon (especially if you&#8217;ve already drawn the cartoon). Heading into the election, polls and general consensus had inflation as the number one issue among Michigan voters. But afterward, apparently that wasn&#8217;t entirely the case.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/behind-michigan-democrats-once-in-a-generation-midterm-win.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As reported by MLive<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Bernie Porn of EPIC\/MRA, another pollster, said he found that while Michiganders cited inflation as their top issue of concern, at 28%, it was abortion that drove them to the polls, with 43% citing that as their top issue in the election itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, so although this news may render today&#8217;s cartoon not 100% accurate, I stand by the point: Among the mistakes Michigan Republicans made in these midterms, invoking inflation without having an actionable plan was a big one. They seemed to have depended on voters just thinking that &#8220;Republican&#8221; was synonymous with &#8220;fiscal responsibility.&#8221; Maybe that was true 40, 50 years ago, but it&#8217;s certainly not today. And so not actually having a plan to fight inflation turned out to be problematic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old maxim (or perhaps I just made it up): Never let updated information get in the way of a good idea for a cartoon (especially if you&#8217;ve already drawn the cartoon). Heading into the election, polls and general consensus had inflation as the number one issue among Michigan voters. But afterward, apparently that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}